What is your favourite series of books, and why?
My favourite series currently, would be Avatar the Last Airbender graphic novel series.
This is a continuation of the series and development of the characters stories.
The Promise touches on the effects of war, colonisation and how you rebuild once the declaration sounds that the war is over.
The Search is a storyline hinted at in the TV series and through this novel you get to see how it unfolds.
The Rift looks into how actions in the past effect now, the adaptions that can be made so we can honour the past respectfully.
Smoke and shadow, the effect unrest and the threats that can arise inside a nation linking back to the promise about the aftereffects of war.
North and South, you discover that change doesn’t come easy and to get others to open up you may need to open up first.
Imbalance reveals that even when balance is in reach people will find other reasons to discriminate, making someone other to themselves.
What made the TV show great gets expanded on and we get to see the adventures of the beloved characters after the end of the show. With great storytelling they are able to touch on the complicate nature of humans and develop their stories.
What is your favourite book from your childhood, and why?
My favourite childhood books would have to be Emily Rodda’s Deltora Quest series.
This was the series that got me into reading, the characters, adventure, puzzles and more.
I love this series for when I got to the final page of the final book in the series, I experienced that happy sad feeling at the end. For I was with them for the journey, grow with the characters and loved how far they had come but new the adventure was over now, and it was time to put the book down. For I would never get to experience the series again for the first time.
I went to read a great many books after this series some ended with that feeling again some made me want to discover more. There is a great many feelings and lesson you can gain from the experience when reading a book, a great many things to explore and discover.
Is there a book you like to re-read, and why that book?
I could say Deltora quest as I could go on and on about it, as it is one of those books I love to re-read.
Many books I have read, or re-read are fantasy books that have a good map as I love the world building you can discover in them.
However, if there is one that I have come back to many times it has to be volume one of One Piece.
As it starts off the epic adventure that Luffy and his crew go on, there are many stories to discover within the page of the manga.
I first read it back in the early 2010s, it has only grown from there and is a world phenomenon.
The whole series is exceptional, but the first chapters are where it all began.
What are a few books that are popular with Emerald library readers this year?
Anh do with Wolf Girl, Hotdog and many more of his works
Aaron Blabey’s Bad Guys which now has a movie
JK Rowling’s Harry Potter is still going strong
Tui Sutherland and the Wings of Fire series
Then Lessons in Chemistry is the book that I have seen the most circulation with the most holds and how many times I see it come in and go again.
